1. The story focuses on a principal character named Fuckhead who is almost always under the influence of drugs. It is obvious that he usually does not see reality clearly. For example, when Fuckhead and Georgie are driving to Iowa during the night, Fuckhead claims to see a group of angels “descending out of a blue summer, their huge faces streaked with light and full of pity” (81). Georgie is also another principal character who steals drugs from a hospital. He is shown to have a desire to save things. For example, when Georgie accidently hits a rabbit with his truck, he has an impulse to cut baby bunnies out of the dying rabbit, place them in his truck, and care for them. From my point of view, Fuckhead and Georgie are the same because they …show more content…
In this story, Fuckhead frequently takes pills from Georgie. However, Georgie has already taken some pills as well. After this point, his notion of reality begins to slip. As we continue to read, reality seems to slip farther and farther away.
6. Fuckhead and Georgie take a ride in the truck, and after being under the influence of drugs, Fuckhead sees an angel. The story then jumps to the drive-in-movie, which I took to be reality. It is here that Fuckhead realizes that it was not an angel that he saw. “On the farther side of the field, just beyond the curtains of snow, the sky was torn away and the angels were descending out of a brilliant blue summer, their huge faces streaked with light and full of pity”(81). I think all of the images that these two men see in their drug-induced minds really display what kind of individuals they are.
7. In this short story, the narrator makes you feel like you are inside his mind, especially when he is on hallucinogenic drugs. The narrator, Fuckhead, seems to live in his own separate world of unstable doubts in which blood provokes giggles. He confesses that he is never sure of what he is going through. This is much like Georgie’s illusory belief that blood covers a clean operating room floor, blood he cannot be able to mop
The sword represents destruction and can signify war. The torch stands for the expansion and the pure light it
The New York Times article, Editorial Observer; Jay Gatsby, Dreamer, Criminal, Jazz Age Rogue, Is a Man for Our Times, highlights the actions of characters such as Jay Gatsby, Atticus Finch, and Holden Caulfield to the 21st Century. The article discusses how all three characters were listed by Book magazine to be names the Top 100 fictional characters since 1900. The character, Gatsby, was selected because of his trait to be the “cynical idealist, who embodies America in all of its messy glory.” The article continues on by stating how Gatsby would relate to a current American in today’s day in age. Many believe that Gatsby would be able to survive, and thrive, in today’s age knowing what readers know of his life in the 1920s. The author begins by
The book, Slaughter House-Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut, is based on the main character named Billy Pilgrim who is a little "lost" in the head. Billy is always traveling to different parts of his life and rarely in the present state. Throughout the book Billy mainly travels back and forth to three big times in his life. In each different time period of Billy's life he is in a different place; his present state is in a town called Illium and his "travels" are to Dresden and Tralfamadore. When Billy is in Illium he is suppose to have a "normal" life; he is married, has two children, and works as an optometrist. Then Billy travels back to Dresden where he was stationed in the last years of WWII and witnessed the horrible bombing. When Billy travels to Tralfamadore he is in an "imaginary" state, everything that happens to him is more like a dream. Through Billy's travels in time he shows that he is striving to find meaning in the events that happened in his life that he is afraid to acknowledge. As Billy says himself, "All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist," (1) this just proves even further that fact that Billy cannot ever forget any event in his life.
I think that what the author was trying to imply in this passage was that in his personal experience, he has noticed that many people take many things for granted and that they don’t live their lives according to what they want and need to do. So much is wasted during one’s lifetime, and people just allow their lives to pass them by.
The mind is a very powerful tool when it is exploited to think about situations out of the ordinary. Describing in vivid detail the conditions of one after his, her, or its death associates the mind to a world that is filled with horrific elements of a dark nature.
As previously mentioned, one conflict includes idealism versus reality. The middle-class in general, and George and Lennie specifically, illustrates the problems they face when dreams of a better life are short-lived due to the reality of circumstances encountered and the Depression. Also, the man versus man conflict is seen on a regular basis throughout the novel. The ranch hands indirectly put pressure on George to shoot Lennie. The ranch hands forced that Candy's dog be shot. Also, the novel sheds light on the inner conflict within certain characters. For example, George struggles with the caring for Lennie, or putting both himself and Lennie at peace for good by killing Lennie. Candy also fears that he, like his dog, will be cast aside whenever he is no longer of use.
One relationship that Fuckhead is in is with Michelle. She is a nice lady and loves Fuckhead. After Michelle died Fuckhead was getting to know women but wanted to be more than friends and found them at bars or at least liked the women who drank alcohol. Fuckhead on the other hand is lying to about a vasectomy he had gotten, telling Michelle he cannot have kids and someone else impregnated her. F.H. also wished she was dead. Michelle eventually left Fuckhead for a guy named John Smith and did not want anything to do with Fuckhead. I believe the cause of Michelle’s death from overdosing on pills is Fuckhead. Fuckhead is selfish and Michelle did not want to be with a drug addict, stealer, etc. John Smith died shortly after Michelle died. At the end of Dirty Wedding Chapter, last paragraph, (84) I believe Fuckhead is trying to make a point that it is not his fault that Michelle left him and they didn’t have a baby together and eventually overdosed. I believe Fuckhead is trying to avoid taking responsibility for that his relationship fell apart because of him. Fuckhead is in no shape to be a father. (84) There is no love if a person does not have remorse and Fuckhead proved
Overall, Willy’s actions greatly influenced his children’s lives. The statement, “He has reared his children- his own seed- in the contaminated soil of delusion” is very accurate. Willy raised his children guiding them through his ways of life. Biff was “contaminated” in his childhood as he strived to live up to his father’s dreams, not realizing the negative effect it had on his life. Happy’s lack of attention as a child only made him act out and develop bad morals. Willy’s delusional life impacted every part of his two son’s lives. Willy’s death which is mourned by only Biff, Happy, and Linda represents the delusion of Willy’s well liked personality. Biff and Happy’s childhood was contaminated by the delusions of their father.
The narrator fantasizes death. “So I take phosphates . . . forbidden to ‘work’ until I am well again” (pg. 1). The narrator is taken away from her
He is a symbol of how the once calm and laid back government reacted and how they lobbied the American citizens to allow them to eliminate each and every threat. Uncle Matt, whose transformation went from someone “whose idea of a big day was checking the mail” (83) into to someone who is very determined to control the situation is a representation of how President George Bush snapped into gear in the weeks following the attacks. Saunders continues to develop this character into a person who displays “sudden strength—focus, certainty” (78). Then, “when [they] realized the problem was bigger than [they] had initially thought”, Uncle Matt decides to bring the whole town together for a meeting (82). He uses Emily’s baby picture and her red hair bow as propaganda to pull on the heart strings of the townspeople. This is his way to ensure they all agree to his mission that “All Infected or Suspected Infected animals must be destroyed at once” (83). In comparison, George Bush, during his very powerful speech to the nation on September 20, 2001, used the police shield of George Howard, a man who lost his life trying to save others at the World Trade Centers. In these similarities, Saunders shows the transformation on how quickly and easily the government went from comforting the nation to becoming exceedingly determined to get rid of each and every
Drug leads to individual’s mental and physical collapse; “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” and “Work” both convey this by abrupt and confusing plot that follows narrator’s stream of consciousness, and unique figurative language. However, “Car Crash While Hitchhiking” delineates protagonist’s destruction more directly. Jesus’ Son provides readers with second hand experience of being high on drugs by unique tone and diction that emulates the experience of drug addicts almost perfectly.
The creation of a stressful psychological state of mind is prevalent in the story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as, Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Ophelia’s struggles in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, and the self-inflicted sickness seen in William Blake’s “Mad Song”. All the characters, in these stories and poems, are subjected to external forces that plant the seed of irrationality into their minds; thus, creating an adverse intellectual reaction, that from an outsider’s point of view, could be misconstrued as being in an altered state due to the introduction of a drug, prescribed or otherwise, furthering the percep...
He put his hand onto the cold glass pane. He felt far away from himself. He imagined putting his fist through it and the jagged hole in the pane and the points of the glass still attached to the wood. He imagined dragging his wrist and his arm against them so they would cut into him. He didn’t think he would feel it. He pictured putting his face through the glass and wondered if he would feel all the pieces cut him.
Willy had affected his family with the obsession of the American Dream and this has caused suffering in his family. Each family member responded differently to Willy, however he caused them all suffering. Linda lived in fear of Willy committing suicide, Biff believed he was unsuccessful most of his life, and Happy was always looking for approval which he never received. Willy’s interactions with his family affected how they felt and inadvertently because of him they all suffered. Without Willy’s obsession with the American Dream they all could have lived happier lives and if that doesn’t make one wonder how slightly twisting an ideal can ruin one's life what
“The stigma of mental illness, although more often related to context than to a person’s appearance, remains a powerful negative attribute in all social relations” (Byrne 65). It is unclear whether Miller was well versed on the subject of psychology, but in this particular play, his character, Willy, epitomizes someone with a schizophrenic personality. Schizophrenia is characterized by the individual having, “[…] at least one psychotic symptom, such as hallucinations, delusions, and/or disorganized speech. Anxiety, depression, and suicide often co-occur frequently in schizophrenia” (“Schizophrenia” 202). In one scene from the play, Willy is heard talking to himself while in the kitchen and then he experiences a flashback of when his sons, Biff and Happy were younger, which is a sign of a hallucination as seen in individuals with schizophrenia. Willy also suffers from grandiose delusions claiming he was an important businessman and well-liked, “[…] I went north to Providence. Met the Mayor. […] then he had coffee with me” (Miller). One of the pivotal moments in the play comes when Linda, Willy’s wife, reveals to her sons that has been suicidal, “He’s been trying to kill himself. […]The insurance inspector came. He said that they have evidence. That all these accidents in the last year — weren’t — weren’t — accidents” (Miller). Suicidal ideations are another symptom seen in schizophrenics. Willy’s suicide attempts may not have been due to